THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Contents aside (the problem with religion isn't politics, but the lack of sense that goes with it) I am becoming rapidly fed up with news hacks. They go out of their way to seek people who agree with them. That the slaughter in Lebanon will stay with us for weeks is because hacks are looking for a hook for their beliefs. The same with SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS. Any time I turn to con-SER-va-tive ones my impatience boils over because they have exactly the same attitude. (I expect it from liberal bloggers as they're a subset of the hacks.) Why do people refuse to admit to their own shortcomings?
A reminder: NYT's closing price on Friday: $21.87. Its year low: $21.70. That was its lowest since 1997. What will stop PINCH'S TRUTH?